DID you see a meteor flash across the Hampshire sky last night?
Hampshire Roads Policing Unit have shared a video on their Twitter of a meteor lighting up the sky last night.
A little clip of the #meteor seen over #Hampshire earlier this evening! Sometimes the job has us in the right place at the right time.... #25356 pic.twitter.com/s4LvIzrK5Z
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) September 6, 2021
It reads: "A little clip of the #meteor seen over #Hampshire earlier this evening!
"Sometimes the job has us in the right place at the right time."
UK Meteor Network has reported that it has received a number of photos of a "fireball" shooting through the sky at around 9.45pm last night.
A meteor is also known as a shooting star and is a space rock that is crashing through the Earth's atmosphere.
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